Kitchen Overview

The novel Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto won several prestigious awards in Japan when it was
first published in 1988. Yoshimoto wrote subsequent novels that were equally successful, and
she is considered one of Japan’s top writers.

Banana Yoshimoto Biographies (1)

Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto "favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities," as a critic for Publishers Weekly once explained. The a...
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